==Downloading NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition from our website==

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NeoOffice/J adopts the uppermost language of the '''System Preferences>International>Language''' settings as its own language for spellchecking (assuming that the necessary language pack [http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/download.php#installlanguages] is already installed if it isn't one of the default 12 languages). Be aware that some languages have more than one form (e.g. English has US English, British English, Austarlian English, etc) as the possible selection - click the '''Edit List...''' button in the '''System Preferences>International>Language''' pane to add your version of the language and drag and drop it to the top of the list.

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See this link for further details on language specific issues: [[Activating Dictionaries]] [http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/Activating_Dictionaries]

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To download NeoOffice from our website, use the following steps:

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=== When running the NeoOffice/J installer, the "test" returns with "NeoOffice/J can not be installed on this computer." ===

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# Login using the e-mail address that you used when you made your last PayPal payment.

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# If you purchased NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition within the last year, NeoOffice will begin downloading. If you did not purchase NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition within the last year, press the {{button|Pay with PayPal or credit card}} button and, after you complete your payment, NeoOffice will begin downloading

This problem may occur on versions of Mac OS X 10.2.x. The Neo/J installer checks to see if you are running Mac OS X 10.2 or higher and checks to see if you have BSD support installed on your machine. If either test fails, Neo/J will not install.

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This error usually means that the NeoOffice .dmg file was not completely downloaded. The NeoOffice download file is very large and some internet service providers disconnect your connection to our web server before the download has finished.

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The solution is to install the BSD support. If you have the retail version of Mac OS X 10.2 system it's on the first install CD. When you put the CD in, the Welcome to Mac OS X window pops up. Open the Optional Installs folder, where there is a shortcut to the BSD installer. Double-click, then follow the instructions.

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To fix this problem, try the following steps. These steps will use Safari to resume the download without starting a new download. Safari has the ability to resume the download if your internet service provider disconnects your connection. Note: these steps only work in Safari and they do not work in Firefox or Chrome:

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# Start a new download of NeoOffice by clicking on the {{button|NeoOffice Professional Edition}} or {{button|NeoOffice Classic Edition}} button and logging in using your e-mail address

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To check manually if the BSD subsystem is installed, try the following in a terminal window:

[[Image:Verifying_dialog.png|right]]If you can open the NeoOffice .dmg file but double-clicking on the NeoOffice installation file does nothing or you only see a dialog like the one shown in the screen snapshot to the right, try the following: right-click or Control-click on the file and, in the popup menu that appears, select the {{prefName|Open With}} > {{prefName|Installer}} menu item.

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If selecting the {{prefName|Open With}} > {{prefName|Installer}} menu item does not open the NeoOffice installation file, reboot your computer into "safe mode" using [https://support.apple.com/HT201262 these steps]. Rebooting into safe mode forces OS X to clear and recreate the security files that control launching and verifying the NeoOffice installer.

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''This likely applies to Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" also.''

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The BSD subsystem is installed by default on 10.3.x (Panther) as part of the '''BaseSystem.pkg.''' If this problem occurs on 10.3.x machines, your BSD subsystem may have been somehow removed or messed up. It is not recommended that you reinstall '''BaseSystem.pkg''' alone, since this may leave your system in an unuseable state. Instead, reinstall Mac OS X from your retail CD; select the "Upgrade" option to preserve all of your settings, documents, etc. Then reinstall the latest Mac OS X updates and security updates to return you system to an up-to-date state.

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If you are running Mac OS X 10.8 - macOS 10.12 and you do not want to upgrade to NeoOffice Professional Edition, you can download the older NeoOffice Classic Edition version [http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/mirrors.php?file=NeoOffice-2015.12_Classic_Edition-Intel.dmg here].

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'''N.B.''': ''Since this requires a fairly significant amount of work, and perhaps time, you should probably check the [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums trinity forums] first and see if someone can determine if something else is the problem and find another solution.''

If you are running Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.10 and you do not want to upgrade to NeoOffice Classic Edition, you can download the older NeoOffice 3.4.1 version [http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/mirrors.php?file=NeoOffice-3.4.1.28-Intel.dmg here].

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In [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1210 this thread], Patrick Luby explains the reasons for this requirement:

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==Downloading NeoOffice from the Mac App Store==

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:Administrator access is required because Neo/J uses OpenOffice.org's multi-user installation. This doesn't require admin access, but in the early days of Neo/J testing, we found that the OOo code has a very bad habit of trying to edit the installed files if the files are owned by the same user that is running Neo/J. This can really muck up a Neo/J installation over time.

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A version of NeoOffice is in Apple's Mac App Store which you can download from [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neooffice/id639210716?mt=12 here]. Although our Mac App Store version costs more than our Professional Edition or Classic Edition versions, you only need to purchase the Mac App Store version once and then all upgrades to future Mac App Store versions will be free.

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==Before Installing==

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=== When upgrading to a new version, the old brown icon remains in the Dock. ===

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<p style="font-size: large; font-weight: bolder">Do I need to uninstall a previous version of NeoOffice first?</p>

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For those of you who are upgrading from 1.1 Alpha to Beta, or from 0.x to 1.1 Beta, 1.1 Release Candidate, or the full 1.1 release, the new icon (a tan ship in a dark blue circle) does not show up in the Dock if the old brown one is already there. Drag the existing icon out of the Dock until it goes poof, then start NeoOffice/J. Now the new icon appears in the Dock. Choose Keep in Dock.

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No. NeoOffice will install over an existing NeoOffice installation. After upgrading, you may want to [[Adding Additional Dictionaries#Installing Third-Party Dictionaries for OpenOffice.org|check for upgrades to any third-party dictionaries that you may have previously installed]].

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Under Mac OS X 10.2.x, the installer will return the error message "There are no suitable partitions for the installation"; on Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x, the installer will provide a red "stop" sign with exclamation point; clicking on the volume will produce the error message "You cannot install this software on this volume" as well as some further information about the problem (or on 10.4.x, "Could not find specified message for index 16", which is a bug in the 10.4.x installer).

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There are two cases in which these messages might appear.

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Note: while you can have two versions of NeoOffice installed on the same machine, in most cases only one version can be run at a time. You must quit the running version of NeoOffice before you launch a different version of NeoOffice.

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As solved in [http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005012811400696 this thread], "It seems you were still running NeoOffice/J 1.1 Alpha 2, and the latest patches only work on NeoOffice/J 1.1 Beta. Neo/J moved from the OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 codebase to the 1.1.3 codebase between Alpha 2 and Beta, so one can't just patch Alpha 2 and get Beta. It would be like trying to apply the Mac OS X 10.3.1 updater to Mac OS X 10.2.8...."

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No. NeoOffice will not harm your OpenOffice or LibreOffice installation. NeoOffice uses separate folders to store your user preferences, macros, and extensions so you do not need to uninstall either OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

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If you open NeoOffice/J and select "About" from the "Help" menu, the version reported in the About window should be '''NeoOffice/J 1.1 Release Candidate''' (as of May 2005).

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To have the Finder open files in NeoOffice instead of in OpenOffice or LibreOffice, see [[Setting_the_Default_Application|Setting the default application]].

To fix this problem, drag '''NeoOffice/J''' from the '''Applications''' folder to the '''Trash'''. Then download and install the latest version and the new patch that goes with it. See the [[NeoOffice/J_Release_Notes|NeoOffice/J Release Notes]] to learn which version is the latest.

==== NeoOffice/J is not located in the <tt>/Applications</tt> folder ====

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The Apple Installer is known to hang when probing all of the volumes on your system if any of your volumes are unreadable.

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If you see this message, most likely the disk image you downloaded is corrupted. We recommend that you delete the corrupted file and redownload NeoOffice.

The NeoOffice installer is designed to not only support launching NeoOffice on a single user machine, but also to support launching NeoOffice from a shared network volume and launching NeoOffice by any user on a multi-user machine. We have found that installing as an administrative user is the only reliable way to handle all of these types of installation.

If you see the {{button|Installing}} button in Apple's App Store application for more than a few minutes, this usually means that the App Store application is still downloading NeoOffice from Apple's servers. NeoOffice is a very large download so Apple's App Store application will show the {{button|Installing}} button for at least a few minutes and, if you have a slow internet connection, 15 minutes or longer.

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== Post-Installation and First Launch Issues ==

== Post-Installation and First Launch Issues ==

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=== Why does NeoOffice/J access the Internet after the first launch? ===

[[Image:NeoOffice cannot save free edition.png|right]]If you see the dialog shown in the screen snapshot to the right when you edit or try to save a document, then the problem is that you have launched NeoOffice Viewer. NeoOffice Viewer can only view files and cannot save documents.

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To fix this problem, right-click or Control on the NeoOffice icon in the Dock while NeoOffice Viewer is still running. In the popup menu that appears, select the {{menu|Options}} > {{menu|Show in Finder}} menu item. A Finder window will appear. Quit NeoOffice, drag the NeoOffice application in that Finder window to the Trash, and empty the Trash.

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If you have not already installed NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition or NeoOffice from the Mac App Store, install either now. If you already installed one of them, double-clicking on a NeoOffice file in the Finder should now launch NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition or NeoOffice from the Mac App Store.

NeoOffice uses the first language in the '''Preferred languages:''' list in the '''Language & Region''' panel in the System Preferences application.

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Running as root is disabled on purpose. Several years ago we found that when running as root, NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice code would modify files in the NeoOffice application folder. This, in turn, caused NeoOffice to not be launchable from a shared network volume or launchable by any non-root user on a multi-user machine.

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If you do need to disable this update checking feature (for example, you are in a managed environment and will be handling mass-deployment of NeoOffice patches yourself), see [[Disabling Patch Checking]] for instructions. If you disable patch checking, we recommend that you to follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/NeoOffice @NeoOffice] to get notified of all NeoOffice release announcements.

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Some features in NeoOffice Professional Edition and Classic Edition require Java. If you see the dialog shown below while running NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition, you need to install the [http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/javadownload.php Java SE Development Kit (JDK) from Oracle].

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# [[#How do I uninstall NeoOffice?|Uninstall the Mac App Store version of NeoOffice]]

When you first install NeoOffice/J, and about once a week thereafter, the application will check the Internet to inform you of any [[NeoOffice/J_Release_Notes | new recommended patches or updates]] so that you can be sure that your version is always up-to-date.

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== Patch Installation Issues ==

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If a new patch is found, your preferred web browser should open and take you to the patch download page.

Staying up-to-date will not only increase the stability of your software, it will cut down on the large number of "duplicate" bugs filed that have already been fixed in released patches. This helps ensure that limited development time can be spent on unfixed bugs and adding new features.

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Patches for the latest version of NeoOffice '''will not apply''' to earlier versions of NeoOffice. Patches can only be installed when a specific version of NeoOffice is already installed. For example, NeoOffice 2017 Professional Edition must already be installed before you can install NeoOffice 2017 Professional Edition Patch 1.

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=== Do I have to make a donation? ===

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To fix this problem, download and install the latest version of NeoOffice from the [http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/download.php?fragment=download NeoOffice download page]. After installing the latest version, select the {{prefName|Help}} > {{prefName|Check for Updates}} menu to check if you have the latest patch.

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You have tried NeoOffice/J and decided it is not for you. This happens sometimes. You can use these [[Uninstalling NeoOffice/J|instructions]] to remove NeoOffice/J without leaving any trace. Please note that you will no longer be able to read any documents you may have saved in the OpenOffice.org file format.

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To uninstall the NeoOffice application, go to the Finder and drag NeoOffice from the {{prefName|Applications}} folder to the Trash and empty the Trash. If you also want to remove any folders that contain your NeoOffice user preferences, macros, and extensions, see [[Uninstalling NeoOffice|Uninstalling NeoOffice]].

Go to the NeoOffice download page and press the NeoOffice Professional Edition or NeoOffice Classic Edition button.

Login using the e-mail address that you used when you made your last PayPal payment.

If you purchased NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition within the last year, NeoOffice will begin downloading. If you did not purchase NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition within the last year, press the Pay with PayPal or credit card button and, after you complete your payment, NeoOffice will begin downloading

Download fails or cannot open downloaded file

This error usually means that the NeoOffice .dmg file was not completely downloaded. The NeoOffice download file is very large and some internet service providers disconnect your connection to our web server before the download has finished.

To fix this problem, try the following steps. These steps will use Safari to resume the download without starting a new download. Safari has the ability to resume the download if your internet service provider disconnects your connection. Note: these steps only work in Safari and they do not work in Firefox or Chrome:

Start a new download of NeoOffice by clicking on the NeoOffice Professional Edition or NeoOffice Classic Edition button and logging in using your e-mail address

Every few minutes, check on the download by clicking the Downloads toolbar button as shown in the screen snapshot to the right. If the progress bar in the Downloads popup window is replaced by an error message, press the Resume downloading icon that is circled in red.

After pressing the Resume downloading icon, the download progress bar should reappear and the download should resume. If the download stops again, repeat the previous step.

NeoOffice installer fails to launch

If you can open the NeoOffice .dmg file but double-clicking on the NeoOffice installation file does nothing or you only see a dialog like the one shown in the screen snapshot to the right, try the following: right-click or Control-click on the file and, in the popup menu that appears, select the Open With > Installer menu item.

If selecting the Open With > Installer menu item does not open the NeoOffice installation file, reboot your computer into "safe mode" using these steps. Rebooting into safe mode forces OS X to clear and recreate the security files that control launching and verifying the NeoOffice installer.

I want to download NeoOffice Classic Edition but I only see NeoOffice Professional Edition

If you are running Mac OS X 10.8 - macOS 10.12 and you do not want to upgrade to NeoOffice Professional Edition, you can download the older NeoOffice Classic Edition version here.

I want to download NeoOffice 3.4.1 but I only see NeoOffice Classic Edition

If you are running Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.10 and you do not want to upgrade to NeoOffice Classic Edition, you can download the older NeoOffice 3.4.1 version here.

A version of NeoOffice is in Apple's Mac App Store which you can download from here. Although our Mac App Store version costs more than our Professional Edition or Classic Edition versions, you only need to purchase the Mac App Store version once and then all upgrades to future Mac App Store versions will be free.

If you see the dialog shown in the screen snapshot to the right when you edit or try to save a document, then the problem is that you have launched NeoOffice Viewer. NeoOffice Viewer can only view files and cannot save documents.

If you have already installed NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition, you can fix this problem by deleting NeoOffice Viewer using these steps.

When double-clicking on the .dmg file, there is an error about "image not recognized"

This error usually means that the NeoOffice .dmg file was not completely downloaded. To fix this problem, try these steps.

Installation stalls when it gets to the "Select Destination" panel

The installer sometimes hangs when it gets to the "Select Destination" panel and no drives in that panel will be selectable.

Unreachable or unreadable volumes on your Mac

The Apple Installer is known to hang when probing all of the volumes on your system if any of your volumes are unreadable.

Try opening each of the volumes on your desktop in the Finder and unmounting any iPods. Once you can open all volumes, then try rerunning the installer. If opening any volumes causes the Finder to hang, you have found the cause of the problem and you might need to reboot to force Mac OS X to unmount the offending volume.

Virus Barrier X6 software

VirusBarrier X6 is known to crash while scanning NeoOffice’s pre-installation scripts, thereby blocking the Apple Installer from continuing. Sometimes after a period of 10 minutes Apple’s installer will recover.

You may be able to prevent this problem from occurring by temporarily disabling the “Scanning & Firewall” feature of VirusBarrier X6 before trying to install NeoOffice or a NeoOffice patch.

If neither temporarily disabling the “Scanning & Firewall” feature of VirusBarrier X6 nor waiting 10 minutes of the Apple Installer to recover works, you may have to completely uninstall VirusBarrier X6.

Installation fails with a "Install Failed. The source media you are installing from is damaged" error message

For some users, installation will fail and the following error message will appear:

Install Failed. The source media you are installing from is damaged

If you see this message, most likely the disk image you downloaded is corrupted. We recommend that you delete the corrupted file and redownload NeoOffice.

Why does the NeoOffice installer request my administrator password?

The NeoOffice installer is designed to not only support launching NeoOffice on a single user machine, but also to support launching NeoOffice from a shared network volume and launching NeoOffice by any user on a multi-user machine. We have found that installing as an administrative user is the only reliable way to handle all of these types of installation.

In the App Store application, click on the Purchases toolbar button and press the Install button to the right of NeoOffice

Wait for NeoOffice to finish downloading before you try to launch NeoOffice

The Mac App Store has not finished installing NeoOffice after several minutes

If you see the Installing button in Apple's App Store application for more than a few minutes, this usually means that the App Store application is still downloading NeoOffice from Apple's servers. NeoOffice is a very large download so Apple's App Store application will show the Installing button for at least a few minutes and, if you have a slow internet connection, 15 minutes or longer.

To see the NeoOffice download progress, click on the Purchases toolbar button in the App Store application as shown in the screen snapshot below. The App Store application will usually finish the installation within a minute or two after the download is finished.

If you see the dialog shown in the screen snapshot to the right when you edit or try to save a document, then the problem is that you have launched NeoOffice Viewer. NeoOffice Viewer can only view files and cannot save documents.

To fix this problem, right-click or Control on the NeoOffice icon in the Dock while NeoOffice Viewer is still running. In the popup menu that appears, select the Options > Show in Finder menu item. A Finder window will appear. Quit NeoOffice, drag the NeoOffice application in that Finder window to the Trash, and empty the Trash.

If you have not already installed NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition or NeoOffice from the Mac App Store, install either now. If you already installed one of them, double-clicking on a NeoOffice file in the Finder should now launch NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition or NeoOffice from the Mac App Store.

Check your language settings before launching NeoOffice

NeoOffice uses the first language in the Preferred languages: list in the Language & Region panel in the System Preferences application.

Some languages have more than one form (English has US English, British English, Australian English, etc.). To add another language or language form, launch the System Preferences application, click on the Language & Region icon, and click the + button below the Preferred languages: list. After adding a new language, move that language to the top of the Preferred languages: list and restart NeoOffice.

Running as root is disabled on purpose. Several years ago we found that when running as root, NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice code would modify files in the NeoOffice application folder. This, in turn, caused NeoOffice to not be launchable from a shared network volume or launchable by any non-root user on a multi-user machine.

If you are logged in as "root", you can run NeoOffice as a non-root user using the following steps:

Go to the Finder and launch the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilties/Terminal)

Execute the following command in the Terminal window. Note: replace "<non-root user>" with the name of a non-root user on your machine:

Why does NeoOffice Professional Edition and Classic Edition access the internet after the first launch?

When you first install a version of NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition and once a week thereafter, NeoOffice will connect to our servers to check if there are any NeoOffice updates. If an update is available, NeoOffice will display a dialog prompting you to download the latest update.

If you do need to disable this update checking feature (for example, you are in a managed environment and will be handling mass-deployment of NeoOffice patches yourself), see Disabling Patch Checking for instructions. If you disable patch checking, we recommend that you to follow us on Twitter @NeoOffice to get notified of all NeoOffice release announcements.

Some features in NeoOffice Professional Edition and Classic Edition require Java. If you see the dialog shown below while running NeoOffice Professional Edition or Classic Edition, you need to install the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) from Oracle.

To download the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) from Oracle, press the Download button in the dialog shown below or download it from here. Note: only Oracle's JDK will work NeoOffice Professional Edition and Classic Edition. Neither Apple's Java nor Oracle's Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) will work.

If none of the volumes in the installer's "Select a Destination" panel are selectable, there are possible causes for this:

The patch is for a version of NeoOffice newer than the version installed on your computer

Patches for the latest version of NeoOffice will not apply to earlier versions of NeoOffice. Patches can only be installed when a specific version of NeoOffice is already installed. For example, NeoOffice 2017 Professional Edition must already be installed before you can install NeoOffice 2017 Professional Edition Patch 1.

To fix this problem, download and install the latest version of NeoOffice from the NeoOffice download page. After installing the latest version, select the Help > Check for Updates menu to check if you have the latest patch.

NeoOffice is not located in the Applications folder

The message will also appear if you have moved NeoOffice from your Applications folder, or if you have renamed NeoOffice. The patch installer will only search the Applications folder for NeoOffice installations. If you have moved NeoOffice out of the Applications folder, quit the installer, move NeoOffice back into your Applications folder, run the installer, and then move NeoOffice back to its original folder.

To uninstall the NeoOffice application, go to the Finder and drag NeoOffice from the Applications folder to the Trash and empty the Trash. If you also want to remove any folders that contain your NeoOffice user preferences, macros, and extensions, see Uninstalling NeoOffice.